Materialising the border: Spaces of mobility and material culture in migration from post-socialist Poland

Mobilities

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 353-373

  Burrell, Kathy ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borders; Journeys; Material culture; Migration; Poland; UK

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; JOURNEY TO WORK; MATERIAL CULTURE; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; MIGRATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 54049148992     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450100802376779     Document Type: Article

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